Gugan’s work can be considered as a visual and poetic exploration of home, identity and time and place through the lens of feminism. Her practice-based approach to making revolves around documenting and radical (re)learning; reflecting on the wonders of everyday, capturing a sense of domestic feminism and the life story.

-‘Stories From Home’ is a critical investigation into understanding my identity as part of the South Asian Diaspora, using personal family history and archival material. The emotional effects of South Asian Diaspora are notably unheard of, simply accepted and not understood, intricately and subtly sown into stories from home, these stories being an integral part of understanding our “own historically situated experience” (Kirsch and Rohan, 2008). Such stories hold incommensurable meaning which engage in ones ‘roots and ‘routes’, that continuously grow and we cultivate; the etymology of the term deriving from the Greek verb ‘diaspeirō’ translating to ‘scatter’ such as to scatter seeds. These stories can feel mundane and irrelevant, yet they are our stories and “Hence it is with a certain feeling of urgency that I seek the nature, subject, words of the other story, the untold one, the life story.” (Le Guin, 2020). The work aims to amplify the voices that go unheard and through its clear sense of radical love and learning this work can be considered a personal pursuit, reclaiming and exploring my heritage, inherited knowledges and the stories that have helped shape me. Inevitability, “the personal is political.” (Hanisch, 2009).